Need for Speed (The Elite, #2)

by Brooke Blaine

“You can do anything you want.” Solo took my face in both hands and kissed my lips, and as I savored the taste, reveled in his nearness, I wondered how I would ever be able to go back to a time where he wasn’t close by.

Solo is being so mature. I love this side of him

“I want to be yours,” he whispered, and the possessiveness that flooded my body made my dick throb and my stomach flip. “You sure about that?” Panther nodded as I drew circles over his warm skin. “I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.”

Panther was looking at me like I was everything he’d ever wanted, and as I climbed up onto the bed and he spread his legs even wider for me, I planned to make sure I lived up to that promise, here tonight, in this very bed.

Don’t have sex with men in the military—broke that. Don’t fraternize with the competition—broke that one too. Don’t let your father know you're seeing a fellow pilot—blew through that one also. And don’t fall in love with the gorgeous pilot with the heartbreaker smile—was doing that right now.

Nothing and no one had ever felt like this before. Solo brushed his fingers down my cheeks and said, “Open your eyes.” My eyes fluttered open and fell on his exquisite face. “I love your eyes,” Solo said, running his thumb over my parted lips and then lowering his hand to wrap his fingers around my cock. “Now come for me, let me watch you lose yourself in us.”

Acceptance. Desire. Love… And as that final, scariest emotion of all hit full force, my body bowed up in an effort to get closer to the one it now recognized as its perfect match. I fell apart in that room, in the arms of the man who had become as integral to me as breathing.

How had this even happened? When did it happen? I’d been so good for so long at keeping myself at a distance from everyone that I hadn’t even noticed that I was falling for Panther. It was his fault. He’d made it too easy. He was simply too beautiful and too good, and how did you stop your heart from falling all over someone like that?

“I—I can’t do this.” My heart stopped. “You can’t do what?” “I can’t pretend anymore. I can’t go in there pretending.” “Pretending…what, exactly?” “You know what, Mateo. I can’t go in there and lie and tell people I couldn’t find a date when the person I want by my side more than anything is standing right in front of me.”

OMG OMG OMG OMG

I took another step toward him, and when he didn’t back away, I held out my hand. If he wanted me and was willing to risk it all, then maybe tonight wasn’t the time to go solo. Maybe this time we’d do it together.